Dr. Bliss holds a Professor of Practice appointment (and is a member of Graduate Faculty) in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering; Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

In 1993, Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D., founded the Sbarro Institute with a generous donation from Mario Sbarro, the Founder of the Sbarro restaurant chain, following Dr. Giordano’s discovery of the tumor suppressor gene pRb2. Initially named the Sbarro In

Ram Pendyala is a professor in the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering program of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, one of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Jamie Winterton is the Director of Strategy for ASU’s Global Security Initiative, where she creates novel solutions for multifaceted and disparate problem spaces. Jamie coordinates and participates in defense and security related research.

Sisson is an assistant professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Pharmacy where he teaches pharmacy, nursing and medical students about drug therapy for hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes.

Sandra currently works independently as a nutrition and diabetes educator consultant, as well as Director of Nutrition Services and Community Outreach at South Bronx Health Center, a program of Montefiore and The Children’s Health Fund.

Kemmis is a physical therapist and certified diabetes educator at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, where she splits her time between the Joslin Diabetes Center affiliate and as an adjunct professor for the PT program.

Klaus Ley

Professor

Dr. Ley s developed a heart vaccine that reduces or prevents inflammation in arteries and, in turn, plaque buildup. If successful, his work will result in the first vaccine to protect against heart disease.

Professor Dr. Klaus Ley is the head of the Division of Inflammation Biology at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
Born and raised in Germany, Dr. Ley received his medical degree from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany, in 1

Dr. Parker is a senior fellow for the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Programs at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service; associate dean for Global One Health, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine

We find ourselves in a war against microbes, and our defense must include unifying leadership and investments in global health security to prevent outbreaks from becoming pandemics.

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Debra Zellner

Studies healthy eating In Philadelphia low-income schools and is available to comment on importance of healthy school lunches to teach kids to like and eat veggies and nutritious foods.

Actively engaged in research in four different, but related, areas.
1) How context and categorization influences hedonic ratings and preference, particularly of foods.
2) Factors that influence how much we like foods.
3) Multimodal perception, particularly the influence of color on odor perception.
4) How to increase vegetable consumption using school lunch

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Roy Herbst

Ensign Professor; Professor; Chief

Dr. Herbst is nationally recognized for his leadership and expertise in lung cancer treatment and research. He is best known for his work in developmental therapeutics and the personalized therapy of non-small cell lung cancer.

Dr. Herbst’s primary mission is the enhanced integration of clinical, laboratory, and research programs to bring new treatments to cancer patients. He has led the Phase I development of several of the new generation of targeted agents for non-small cell lu

"This is a historic study, showing for the first time the benefit of screening to improve lung cancer survival. As a result, tertiary care centers like Yale can now begin to screen former smokers and carefully evaluate and monitor any abnormalities found.","This is a historic study, showing for the first time the benefit of screening to improve lung cancer survival. As a result, tertiary care centers like Yale can now begin to screen former smokers and carefully evaluate and monitor any abnormalities found."

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Office Phone :
203.785.6879

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roy.herbst@yale.edu

Charles Fuchs

Professor; Director; Physician-in-Chief

An internationally recognized expert in gastrointestinal cancers and cancer epidemiology, Dr. Fuchs was previously professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the gastrointestinal oncology division.

The biology of colon cancer presents unique challenges that are distinct from other cancers. It doesn’t avail itself as other cancers do to current cancer drugs.”,The biology of colon cancer presents unique challenges that are distinct from other cancers. It doesn’t avail itself as other cancers do to current cancer drugs.”

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203.785.4371

Email :
emily.fenton@yale.edu

Anees Chagpar

Associate Professor; Director, Assistant Director

A breast surgeon, nationally recognized for her efforts in breast cancer care and research.

Anees is the Director of The Breast Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, and the Assistant Director for Global Oncology at Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center. Born and

"Three-dimensional mammography can help detect more cancers earlier and reduce call-back rates.","Three-dimensional mammography can help detect more cancers earlier and reduce call-back rates."

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203-200-1518

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Yashpal Agrawal

Pathologist

Dr. Agrawal is a board-certified pathologist and laboratory director specializing in clinical and anatomic pathology with a focus on toxicology. He is chair of the Toxicology Resource Committee with the College of American Pathologists.

Michael Leroy Oberg is distinguished scholar in Native American studies. Publication is imminent of the second edition of his college textbook Native America: A History.

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Matthew Johnson

Chair and Professor of Psychology

Johnson’s research interests include marriage and family functioning. He can discuss an array of issues related to relationships.
Johnson’s most recent research investigated the success rate of government-funded education programs designed to promote

Johnson’s research interests include marriage and family functioning. He can discuss an array of issues related to relationships.
Johnson’s most recent research investigated the success rate of government-funded education programs designed to promote healthy marriages, among couples in this same category. He is the author of “Great Myths of Intimate Relationships: Dating, Sex, and Marriage” and has provided discussions on the developmental course of marital distress and dissolution, particularly among young couples and people of color.

Johnson cites two important research studies, published more than a year ago, which appear to conclude that relationship education is an ineffective poverty-fighting solution.,Johnson cites two important research studies, published more than a year ago, which appear to conclude that relationship education is an ineffective poverty-fighting solution.,Johnson cites two important research studies, published more than a year ago, which appear to conclude that relationship education is an ineffective poverty-fighting solution.

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607-777-2370

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mjohnson@binghamton.edu

Mary Muscari

Associate Professor of Nursing

Mary Muscari is an expert of school violence and recently offered expert commentary on the Colorado shootings, mass murder and mental health. She is a parenting expert and the author of Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood.

Mary Mascari, associate professor of nursing, Director of the O'Connor Office of Rural Health Studies and Coordinator of Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Forensic Health Programs, is an expert of school violence and recently offered expert commentary on the Colorado shootings, mass murder and mental health.
She is a parenting expert and the author of "Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood." She has conducted numerous parenting workshops around the country on topics such as keeping kids safe from predators (‘live’ and Internet), bullying, cyberbullying, raising nonviolent kids, sexting, anger management in kids, coping with back to school angst, how to avoid spoiling your kid, shaken baby syndrome, how to be a positive role model, teaching children how to be charitable, finding family time, girls and puberty, grand-parenting, holiday etiquette, traveling with kids, how to limit spending on your kids (particularly during the holidays), Halloween safety and money management.
She has provided numerous talks on the issue of “Choosing Nursing as a Career,” drawing from her book on the topic, “Becoming a Nurse”.

"There are certainly a lot of people who have a lot of things go wrong, and they're not committing mass murders," said Mary Muscari, a forensic nurse at Binghamton University in New York who has researched mass killers. "Even when you look at mental illness, most people with mental illness are not violent," Muscari told LiveScience in July after the Aurora, Colo., movie theater killings.,"There are certainly a lot of people who have a lot of things go wrong, and they're not committing mass murders," said Mary Muscari, a forensic nurse at Binghamton University in New York who has researched mass killers. "Even when you look at mental illness, most people with mental illness are not violent," Muscari told LiveScience in July after the Aurora, Colo., movie theater killings.,"There are certainly a lot of people who have a lot of things go wrong, and they're not committing mass murders," said Mary Muscari, a forensic nurse at Binghamton University in New York who has researched mass killers. "Even when you look at

Uses environmental and disease data to predict the risk of West Nile Virus and malaria. Investigates effects of fire on tropical forests and impact of wildfire management techniques.

By blending the most recent data from mosquito traps with maps of temperature and other environmental variables, we will be able to identify specific times and places where the risk of West Nile virus transmission is highest.,By tracking malaria cases as they occur, we can look for anomalies or spikes in the case data, indicators of a bigger epidemic or peak. Our idea is to combine environmental and disease data in an integrated system. We bring [public health professionals] to the table up front and they teach us what they need.

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605-695-0869

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605-688-5350

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Hans Hassell

Assistant Professor of Politics

Hassell's research focuses on political parties, Congress, campaigns and elections, and political participation. He's also interested in how the contextual political environment, especially aspects such as race and immigration, affect political behaviors.

Hans Hassell is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Cornell College. His research focuses on political institutions and, specifically, on political parties and their role in electoral politics. In particular, he studies the role of parties in shaping the field of candidates and controlling the outcomes of political primaries and nominations for the U.S. House and Senate. He is also interested in how the contextual political environment, especially aspects such as race, ethnicity, and immigration, shape political behaviors and outcomes. Some of this work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Behavior. Hassell's book The Party's Primary: Control of Congressional Nominations will be published in the spring of 2018 with Cambridge University Press.
As a scholar, Hassell is associated with Laboratories of Democracy, a non-profit research organization of political scientists that collaborates with local and state officials on field experimental research, and has acted as a co-principal investigator of the 2016 American Municipal Official Survey -- a survey of U.S. local officials that employs survey experiments as a means to study elected public officials.
Hassell received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. He graduated from Pomona College in 2007 where he also majored in Politics. While in college, Hassell worked full time as a political operative during the 2004 and 2006 election cycles on campaigns in Maine and Minnesota.

Melinda Green

Associate Professor of Psychology

Green examines biological, psychological, and sociocultural correlates of eating disorders and examines the efficacy of dissonance-based eating disorder prevention and treatment paradigms. She has been researching eating disorders for more than a decade.

Todd A. Knoop is a Professor of Economics and Business at Cornell College. He is also the author of multiple articles as well as the books "Business Cycle Economics: Understanding Recessions and Depressions from Boom to Bust," "Global Finance in Emerging Market Economies," "Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles," "Modern Financial Macroeconomics," and "The traveling Economist."
Academic History:
Ph.D. in Economics, Purdue University, 1996
M.A. in Economics, Miami University, 1992
B.A. in Economics and Finance, Miami University, 1991

Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhD, is medical director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center and an associate clinical professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is an associate clinical professor at the Child Study Center, Yale University. He is an adjunct associate professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and former director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. While in New York, he also had a private psychoanalytic practice.
Dr. Gerber completed a PhD in psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he studied with Peter Fonagy and Joseph Sandler, investigating the process and outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in young adults. He completed his medical and psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, and Weill Cornell and Columbia medical schools and his psychoanalytic training at Columbia. He trained as a research fellow with Bradley Peterson at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in brain imaging and child psychiatry. He has published and received grants in the areas of developmental psychopathology, attachment, and functional neuroimaging of dynamic processes, including social cognition and transference. He has also been involved in planning and teaching psychoanalytic research as head of the Science Department at the American Psychoanalytic Association and chair of the Committee on Scientific Activities, secretary of the Psychoanalytic Psychodynamic Research Society, and a member of the psychotherapy research committees of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Gerber is married to Andrea Gerber, PhD, who is a clinical psychologist. They have two young daughters, Samantha and Lila.
Dr. Gerber’s published scholarship shows his deep passion for research. For a list (and downloadable copies) of Dr. Gerber's publications, see: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Gerber

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Jane Tillman

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director, Erikson Institute

Authoritative Source on the Effect of Patient Suicide on Clinicians and Organizations, Developmental Pathways to Suicide, Impasses in Clinical Treatment, and Professional Ethics in Psychology

Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center, a long-term psychiatric hospital and treatment center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. A board-certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst, Dr. Tillman is an assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center and a clinical instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tillman serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Psychology, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the past-president of the Section on Women, Gender, and Psychoanalysis of Division 39, served two terms as the chair of the Ethics Committee for Division 39, and is a past board member of the Western Massachusetts Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (WMAAPP).
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Dr. Tillman is the principal investigator on several externally funded studies related to understanding the contributors to suicidal states of mind and suicidal behavior. She directs the Suicide Research and Education Initiative for the Erikson Institute. Dr. Tillman has presented and published on a wide variety of topics including dissociation, psychosis, religion, impasses in treatment, embodiment, clinical and professional ethics, research methodology, identifying markers for acute risk of suicide, and the effect of patient suicide on clinicians. She has also written on the intergenerational transmission of suicide.
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Dr. Tillman earned her AB from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and MDiv from Duke University, a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Dartmouth Medical School. She completed a four-year Fellowship in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center and is a graduate of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute.
For a list (and downloadable copies) of Dr. Tillman's publications, see: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jane_Tillman

Eric M. Plakun, MD, FACPsych, DLFAPA, is the associate medical director and director of biopsychosocial advocacy at the Austen Riggs Center, a long-term psychiatric hospital and treatment center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, previously serving for 35 years as the director of admissions. A board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, and forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Plakun was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than 20 years. In his role at Riggs, he advocates for “Four Freedoms” we owe to those struggling with mental disorders: [1] Freedom from stigma; [2] Freedom from dehumanizing treatment; [3] Freedom to pursue meaning in life and in treatment; and [4] Freedom of choice in access to medically necessary and effective treatment.
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Dr. Plakun was co-principal investigator of a prospective follow-along study of treatment outcome that utilized objective measures of psychodynamic constructs. He is the editor of New Perspectives on Narcissism (American Psychiatric Press, 1990) and Treatment Resistance and Patient Authority: the Austen Riggs Reader (Norton Professional Books, 2011), and author of close to fifty published papers and book chapters on the diagnosis, treatment, longitudinal course, and outcome of patients with [1] borderline and other personality disorders, [2] suicidal and self-destructive behaviors, and [3] treatment-resistant disorders. Dr. Plakun has presented more than one hundred scientific papers on these and other topics at professional meetings around the nation and overseas.
Dr. Plakun is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and founding leader of its Psychotherapy Caucus. He is a Psychoanalytic Fellow of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and in 2004 was appointed this group’s representative to the APA Assembly. He is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and past chair of its Ethics Committee, a Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts and member of its Board of Regents, a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Medicine, and a member of the editorial board of Psychodynamic Psychiatry. Dr. Plakun has appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes as an expert in forensic psychiatry. He has served as an expert witness in federal class action lawsuits addressing the gap between restrictive insurance company access to care standards and generally accepted standards in psychiatry.
He has been quoted in the New York Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail. In 2003, Dr. Plakun was named by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society as the “Outstanding Psychiatrist in Clinical Psychiatry.”
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Dr. Plakun received his MD from the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. After an internship in medicine at Dartmouth, Dr. Plakun worked as a rural general practitioner in Vermont before completing a psychiatric residency at Dartmouth and a Fellowship at the Austen Riggs Center in psychoanalytic studies.
For a list (and downloadable copies) of Dr. Plakun's publications, see: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Plakun

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Lori Peek

Director, Natural Hazards Center

Dr. Peek studies the sociology of disaster, -social impacts of disaster, with particular focus on displacement, long-term recovery, and the effects on children, youth, and families.

Lori Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies vulnerable populations in disaster and has conducted field investigations in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, the Christchurch earthquakes, the Joplin tornado, Superstorm Sandy, and Hurricane Matthew. She is currently co-leading a National Science Foundation-funded workshop series on methods of interdisciplinary disaster research and she is a member of the social science team for the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center of Excellence for Risk Based Community Resilience Planning. She is also working on several ongoing projects related to children’s health and well-being before, during, and after disaster.

Isaac Yang, M.D., is a nationally renowned neurosurgeon specializing in brain tumors, superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD), and skull base brain surgery at UCLA. Yang is a board-certified neurosurgeon and director of medical student education for the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery; an associate professor of neurosurgery, head and neck surgery, and radiation oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and a principal investigator at the UCLA brain tumor laboratory.
Yang is highly sought out by peers, patients and the media for his expertise in neurological diseases and brain health. He has made multiple TV appearances on Good Morning America, CBS' The Doctors, Dr. Drew LifeChangers, and several national news outlets. Originally from Lodi, Calif., Yang developed an interest in neurobiology as an undergraduate. He earned his bachelor’s degree with Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley. His training followed with a medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Yang completed a neurological surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco, as well as an NRSA NIH-funded F32 postdoctoral brain tumor research fellowship.
Yang’s clinical focus has been primarily on brain tumors, both glioblastoma and skull base tumors. His research efforts have examined antigen expression and manipulation of the immune response to glioblastoma. His work was recognized by a UCSF Clinical and Translational Scientist Training Award and the CNS Dandy Clinical Research Fellowship. Yang has been the recipient of several distinguished regional and national awards, including the UCSF Medical Center 2010 Exceptional Physician Award, the AANS Integra Brain Tumor Research Award, San Francisco Neurological Society Edwin Boldrey Award for Basic Science Research, American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons Research Award, Kaiser Award for Clinical Research, the national AANS Leksell Radiosurgery Award, and the Tumor Section Ronald L. Bittner Award on Brain Tumor Research.
Yang has published more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than half a dozen book chapters. At UCLA, he is investigating the use of nanoparticles and nanotechnology for their application in brain tumor immunotherapy and vaccines. Dr. Isaac Yang is dedicated to improving the care and treatment of all patients undergoing neurosurgery.
If interested please follow Dr. Yang on Facebook at Isaac Yang UCLA Neurosurgery or find his most recent book, Service Minded Physician, on Amazon.

“What we’re doing now is performing the entire operation in a hole the size of a dime. That allows these patients to get back to work and get back to their lives much sooner.",“What we’re doing now is performing the entire operation in a hole the size of a dime. That allows these patients to get back to work and get back to their lives much sooner."

Johnston is Professor and Associate Director of the Nutrition Program in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University. She chairs the Institutional Review Board at ASU which oversees human subject research at the university.

Dr. Jackson is a sports historian and lecturer in the School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is available to speak on subjects related to the cultural and political significance of athletes and sport.

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Swapna Reddy

Clinical Assistant Professor

How law and policy can be utilized as tools to improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities and inequities

Swapna Reddy, JD, MPH is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s School for the Science of Health Care Delivery, College of Health Solutions. She also serves as faculty at Arizona State University’s Barrett, the Honors College.

Halden is director of the Center for Environmental Health Engineering at the Biodesign Institute, professor in the Ira A. Fulton School for Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and a senior sustainability scientist.

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Anamitra Pal

Assistant Professor

Power and energy systems, energy modeling and smart grids, wide-area monitoring, protection and control

Anamitra Pal is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He is available to discuss what it will take to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid from scratch.

Dr. Maidenberg has been teaching and supervising clinicians and psychiatry residents for over 25 years. He provides cognitive behavioral therapy for a variety of anxiety disorders and depression.

“You can learn to manage stress. You can develop a set of tools for bringing the level down. That can’t happen overnight though. You have to practice.”,“You can learn to manage stress. You can develop a set of tools for bringing the level down. That can’t happen overnight though. You have to practice.”

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Bryan Cunningham

As the founding executive director of UCI’s multidisciplinary Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, Bryan Cunningham is focused on solution-oriented strategies that address technical, legal and policy challenges to combat cyber threats; protect individual privacy and civil liberties; maintain public safety, economic and national security; and empower Americans to take better control of their digital security.
Cunningham is a leading international expert on cybersecurity law and policy, a former White House lawyer and adviser and a media commentator on cybersecurity, technology and surveillance issues. He has appeared on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, FOX and other networks.
Cunningham has extensive experience in senior U.S. government intelligence and law enforcement positions. He served as Deputy Legal Adviser to then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He also served six years in the Clinton administration as a senior CIA officer and federal prosecutor. He drafted significant portions of the Homeland Security Act and related legislation, helping to shepherd them through Congress. He was a principal contributor to the first National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, worked closely with the 9/11 Commission and provided legal advice to the President, National Security Advisor, the National Security Council, and other senior government officials on intelligence, terrorism, cyber security and other related matters.
Cunningham is a founding partner of the Washington, DC-Los Angeles firm Cunningham Levy Muse, and his law practice has included assisting Fortune 500 and multinational companies to comply with complex legal regulations under U.S. federal law, myriad state laws and the numerous privacy and security requirements in the European Union and other overseas jurisdictions.
He was founding vice-chair of the American Bar Association Cyber Security Privacy Task Force and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on information issues. He has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Biodefense Analysis, the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Cyber Security Task Force. He is also the principal author of legal and ethics chapters in several cybersecurity textbooks.

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Jennifer Balch

Assistant Professor

My research aims to understand the patterns and processes of wildfire, including human impact on fire, fire’s role in Earth's systems and how fire contributes to global trends of climate warming.

I balance cutting-edge fieldwork with analysis of global ecological data to examine how human changes to fire patterns are encouraging forest-savanna transitions, degrading ecosystems and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Together with an international community of collaborators, I work across disciplines and scales—from individual organisms to entire ecosystems.

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303-492-6343

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Jocelyn Read

Assistant Professor Physics

Read is an astrophysicist who studies neutron stars. A leading binary neutron star expert, she is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and serves as associate director of CSUF's Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center.

Jocelyn Read is an astrophysicist who studies neutron stars — the remnant cores of dead stars that didn't quite have enough mass to end up as black holes. A leading binary neutron star expert, she focuses on how matter behaves at the extremely high densities inside neutron stars and how this might be measured from astronomical observations of X-rays, gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves.
She and her students work to understand and model how neutron stars interact, collide and radiate energy to learn more about their structure and composition.
Read joined Cal State Fullerton in 2012 and has received numerous grants for her research. Most recently, she was awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to lead a project to recruit and support underrepresented students, in particular Latino students, in gravitational-wave science. The grant supports CSUF and Citrus College students engaged in undergraduate research, as well as CSUF alumni in the doctoral program in gravitational-wave astrophysics at Syracuse University.
A native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Read earned her doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She completed postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany and at the University of Mississippi.
Read, a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, serves as associate director of CSUF's Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center. She is the recipient of the 2017 "Women of the Year" award in the category of science and technology from state Sen. Josh Newman.
For additional CSUF materials and resources, please visit these websites:
• CSUF News Center: http://news.fullerton.edu
• CSUF Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center: http://physics.fullerton.edu/gwpac/
• CSUF Scientists Contribute to First Discovery: http://news.fullerton.edu/gravitational-waves/default.aspx

Neutron stars are the densest stable form of matter in the universe - the collapse remnants of dead massive stars.,Matter thrown off from these collisions is thought to be the source of many heavy elements in our solar systems - like lead and gold. After the crash, the stars wobble together and collapse into a black hole, launching jets of high-energy radiation that flash across to distant galaxies.

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Larissa Mooney

Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic

Substance use disorders and their treatment, including opioid, methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, and cannabis use disorders. Clinical effects of drugs of abuse and factors contributing to the opioid epidemic.

Dr. Larissa Mooney is a board certified addiction psychiatrist with expertise in the treatment of substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidity. After obtaining residency training at New York University, she completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Mooney is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic, where she teaches psychiatrists in training in the clinical management of dual diagnoses. Dr. Mooney serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP). She has conducted research on treatment interventions for addictive disorders, including methamphetamine, cocaine and opioid use disorder and has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study clinical outcomes in individuals with cannabis use disorder.

"Smoking is inherently unhealthy, and by sending the message that we're smoking something to take the edge off or to cope with pain, that sends a message to our children.” ,"Smoking is inherently unhealthy, and by sending the message that we're smoking something to take the edge off or to cope with pain, that sends a message to our children.”

Donald B. Kohn, M.D., studies the biology of blood stem cells, which are located in the bone marrow and have two important properties: they can duplicate themselves and they can create all types of blood cells. Over the course of 30 years of research, Kohn has developed new clinical methods to treat genetic blood diseases using blood stem cells that have been modified to remove genetic mutations.
Kohn’s blood stem cell gene therapy method collects some of a patient’s own blood stem cells and either adds a good copy of the defective gene or fixes the broken genes to eliminate disease-causing mutations. The patient then receives a transplant of their own corrected stem cells, which will ideally create an ongoing supply of healthy blood cells. Importantly, this method eliminates the risk of rejection associated with receiving a bone marrow transplant from a different person, meaning the patient doesn’t have to take a lifelong supply of anti-rejection drugs.
Kohn’s clinical trials for adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (also known as ADA-SCID or bubble baby disease), a condition where babies are born without an immune system and often don’t survive past the first two years of life, have cured more than 40 babies to date. Babies with the condition and their families have traveled to UCLA for this life-saving treatment from as far away as Lebanon and a new company was formed in 2016 to further develop the therapy and make it available at other centers and to more patients.
Kohn is now applying similar blood stem cell gene therapy techniques in clinical trials for two other diseases. One of these diseases is X-linked chronic granulomatous disease, a rare inherited immunodeficiency disorder that prevents white blood cells from effectively killing foreign invaders such as bacteria, fungi or other microorganisms. If untreated, patients often succumb to chronic granulomatous disease within the first decades of life.
The second disease is sickle cell disease, the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. This disease causes abnormal ‘sickle-shaped’ red blood cells that block small blood vessels and do not provide the appropriate amount of oxygen to the body, resulting in debilitating pain and organ damage. Kohn’s clinical trial seeks to overcome or repair the genetic mutation that causes this devastating disease, which impacts millions worldwide.
Kohn earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School Of Medicine. He completed a pediatric internship and residency in Wisconsin followed by a medical staff fellowship in the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch (formerly the Metabolism Branch) of the National Cancer Institute.
Kohn began working on gene therapy as a fellow at the National Institutes of Health in 1985 and then began practicing as a pediatric bone marrow transplant physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 1987. While practicing at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, he started his own lab focused on stem cell research and has continued this work, advancing new therapies from the lab to the clinic.

“All of the children with SCID that I have treated in these stem cell clinical trials would have died in a year or less without this gene therapy, instead they are all thriving with fully functioning immune systems.”,“All of the children with SCID that I have treated in these stem cell clinical trials would have died in a year or less without this gene therapy, instead they are all thriving with fully functioning immune systems.”

Dr. Tan is a clinician, researcher and educator. He maintains his clinical practice at the UCLA Medical Plaza in Westwood and at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He performs epidemiological research at the Framingham Heart Study and education/quality improvement research at UCLA. His studies on brain aging and memory have been published in major medical journals and featured in the New York Times, Time, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other national publications.
Dr. Tan holds the Philo Van Wagoner Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine and is the Associate Chief for Education at the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine.

"I think aging is a time of growth, in a sense that older people, even those with early memory problems, can grow from and learn from the students as much as they are imparting." ,"I think aging is a time of growth, in a sense that older people, even those with early memory problems, can grow from and learn from the students as much as they are imparting."

Before joining UCLA, Giza worked on the Yosemite Search and Rescue team. In 2011, he traveled to Afghanistan as a civilian advisor to the U.S. Department of Defense. He co-chaired the American Academy of Neurology committee that developed an evidence-based practice guideline for the management of sports concussions from 2009-2013. He currently serves on advisory committees for traumatic brain injuries/concussion with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Soccer and U.S. Soccer Federation. He has been a clinical consultant for the National Football League, National Hockey League and Major League Soccer.

“One thing that is a little surprising,” he said, “is that the objective measures of disrupted sleep showed differences after [traumatic brain injury], but the subjects themselves underestimated their sleep disturbances.”,“One thing that is a little surprising,” he said, “is that the objective measures of disrupted sleep showed differences after [traumatic brain injury], but the subjects themselves underestimated their sleep disturbances.”

Brooks is the director of Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Center and also serves as the associate director of the MSU-led Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), a coalition of 22 of the nation’s leading aviation and unmanned systems research universities tasked with developing technical solutions to address the challenges of safely integrating UAS into the national airspace.
He investigates, evaluates, proposes, selects and directs UAS research projects and initiatives to be executed under the FAA’s UAS Center of Excellence. He also evaluates research results and makes recommendations to the FAA on proposed standards for UAS system design, construction, performance, flight standards and operational procedures that are designed to enhance the safety of UAS operations nationwide and around the world.
A recognized national leader in unmanned systems integration, Brooks engages and coordinates with national and international regulatory, support and administrative agencies to help ensure that the tremendous capabilities of unmanned systems are realized. His aviation and technical experience spans over 30 years, more than 20 of which were in service to America’s armed forces at home and overseas.
A 26-year U.S. Air Force veteran, he held key leadership positions in aviation and communications, including serving as the USAF’s chief of UAS integration. He also served as the chair of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Integration Integrated Product Team for the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. In this role, he led a joint team working to enable UAS access to support Department of Defense operational, training and R&D requirements.
Brooks earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the fields of aeronautics and aviation/aerospace operations. He also holds a master’s degree in telecommunications management from Webster University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Auburn University at Montgomery. For more on Brooks, see http://www.raspet.msstate.edu/director/.

Larry S. Schlesinger, MD is an internationally recognized authority in infectious diseases with a particular interest in tuberculosis and lung biology. He earned a BA in Biology from Cornell University and MD from Rutgers Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and clinical and research fellowships in Infectious Diseases at UCLA. He joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1991 where he served as Fellowship Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine. He moved to the Ohio State University in 2002 where he served as Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine until 2011 when he became first chair of Microbial Infection & Immunity. During his tenure he founded the Center for Microbial Interface Biology, a Board of Trustees approved university-wide center with a focus on infectious diseases of concern to public health. In 2017 he became President and CEO of Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, TX.
Dr. Schlesinger is a leading physician scientist whose studies focus on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and other airborne infectious agents that subvert lung immune mechanisms. His discoveries have led to greater insight into the unique attributes that soluble and cellular components of the innate immune system of humans bring to the microbe-host interface (with a focus on human macrophages), translating them into drug discovery platforms. He is a prolific scholar, having authored more than 170 peer-reviewed articles, served as editor of 2 books and has written several chapters in leading textbooks on tuberculosis and lung biology. He has been continually funded for nearly 30 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies as well as private foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He is a current NIH NIAID Council member, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Physicians and American Academy of Microbiology, and OSU’s 2011 Distinguished Scholar and 2105 COM Distinguished Professor.

Joanne Turner, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Research at Texas Biomedical Research Institute. In addition to her administrative role, where she oversees the research functions of Texas Biomed, she also manages a research program. Her research focuses on immunology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and immunology of aging. More specifically, she studies the changes that take place in the immune system during the natural aging process and how those changes can influence both innate and adaptive immune function when infected with M. tuberculosis. She also studies immune responses that correlate with an individual’s susceptibility to reactivate a previously latent infection with M. tuberculosis. Dr. Turner received her Ph.D. in Immunology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She started with Texas Biomed this past summer, having previously served as a Professor and Biosafety Level 3 Program Director at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Torrelles’ research is focused on the study of the human lung environment and its effect on the outcome of TB disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection. He also aims to improve the diagnosis of susceptible and drug resistant TB in high burden areas.
Beyond the diagnosis of TB, Dr. Torrelles and his team aim to understand the impact of the human lung mucosa in TB pathogenesis. He and his team have found that there are enzymes in the human lung mucosa that modify the bacteria prior to infecting host cells, thus, potentially redefining the M.tb pathway of infection and disease outcome.
Dr. Torrelles is originally from Catalonia, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry/ microbiology in 2003 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During his graduate studies, he moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to serve as a visiting scientist at Colorado State University. He finished his Ph.D. and became a research associate and lab manager before moving to The Ohio State University for his postdoctoral fellowship, where over the years he became independent and obtained the appointment of tenured Associate Professor.

Dr. Robert Lanford, PhD, is currently the Director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center, one of seven NIH National Primate Research Centers. He is a Scientist at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
Dr. Robert E. Lanford received a B.S. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Virology from Baylor College of Medicine in 1979. He served as Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine until 1984 when he moved to the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (now Texas Biomedical Research Institute) to initiate programs on the use of nonhuman primates as models for human hepatitis infections. Dr. Lanford has published over 170 scientific papers and serves as a reviewer for several journals. His laboratory performs research on multiple hepatitis viruses HAV, HBV, HCV and GBV-B. One of the primary goals of his research program is to better understand the interactions of the virus with the host, and how these interactions influence either viral clearance or persistence and disease progression. His studies in the chimpanzee were the first to use total genome microarray analysis to examine viral-host interactions and the innate immune response to HCV. In collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, he has utilized the chimpanzee model of chronic HBV and HCV infections to evaluate efficacy of new antiviral therapies as the last preclinical step prior to human clinical trials. These studies contributed to the development of cocktails of antivirals that can now cure HCV infection in 12 weeks. Recently, Dr. Lanford has developed a primate model for liver cancer by the genetic engineering of primary baboon hepatocytes with activated baboon oncogenes and autologous transplantation of the cells to the liver of the immunocompetent hepatocyte donor. Efforts are ongoing in his laboratory to develop new nonhuman primate models for HBV research.

Dr. Tardif is Associate Director of Research and Senior Management Team member for SNPRC and has extensive experience coordinating large, integrated research projects throughout her professional career. She served as the marmoset expert for the team charged with sequencing the marmoset genome and as the species expert for recent studies on development of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) technologies.
Her research is focused on metabolism, behavior and reproduction and, most recently, on the characterization of the marmoset as a model for obesity and aging.
Dr. Tardif has more than 30 years of expertise in the development of common marmoset monkeys as biomedical models in diverse areas including:
Reproductive biology
Infectious disease
Neuroscience
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Marcel Daadi

Leader of SNPRC Regenerative Medicine & Aging Unit

Regenerative medicine for stroke and Parkinson's disease; translational research

Dr. Daadi is an expert in regulated translational research and has developed therapeutic neural stem cell lines (NSC) for clinical use in Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and to target brain tumors in both industrial and academic settings. He discovered a novel technique of engineering these stem cell lines from pluripotent human embryonic stem cells and continues to develop this therapeutic cell line for clinical use.
Dr. Daadi came to Texas Biomed in 2014 and is the team leader for the SNPRC Regenerative Medicine and Aging research unit. Results from his studies are the foundation of translational research and help to repair diseased or injured brain through transplantation of highly purified NSCs and stimulation of internal repair mechanisms.

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Marie-Claire Gauduin

Dr. Gauduin has more than 25 years of experience in HIV/AIDS research and medical microbiology. She has been working extensively on HIV and the development of novel vaccine strategies using the non-human primate model for AIDS. In her work, she uses epithelial stem cells and weakened recombinant papillomavirus as vaccine- vectors to protect against multiple low-dose mucosal challenges. Dr. Gauduin is also developing a neonatal model for tuberculosis to study HIV/TB co-infection in pediatric AIDS.
Her specific research interests are:
Early events of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) transmission in a macaque model
Host immune responses to infectious diseases
Early virus-specific T cell responses in neonates
Tuberculosis/SIV coinfection in pediatric AIDS

Dr. Bastarrachea is a Staff Scientist in the SNPRC and the Department of Genetics. His research focuses on the biology and genetics of complex metabolic traits with focus on cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. His research has helped to develop and establish the baboon as a non-human primate (NHP) model to study the physiological mechanisms regulating fat tissue metabolism in obesity and diabetes, with a special emphasis on hormone regulation and action.

Dr. Bernal oversees all aspects of the SNPRC animal care and use program. He has more than 36 years of experience in laboratory animal care and medicine. To increase the number of certified laboratory animal technicians at Texas Biomed and other institutions, he has developed institution-wide training and certification programs. Dr. Bernal has been integral to developing the SNPRC study process manual that details all of the steps required to complete a study from start to finish. Dr. Bernal oversees and develops standard operating procedures for:
Comprehensive socialization and environmental enrichment plan
Preventative medicine program (frequent physicals, TB testing, parasite evaluation, viral testing)
Veterinary care program
Aseptic technique
Management of pain and distress
Animal enclosure sanitation.

Dr. Patterson’s laboratory works on the development of countermeasures against potential biological weapons. Her group focuses on the development of therapies and vaccines against naturally occurring pathogens that can cause sporadic but lethal outbreaks, and her most recent studies concentrate on hemorrhagic fever viruses. Dr. Patterson has been involved in the development of three vaccines against Ebola and two vaccines against Lassa fever that are undergoing further studies.
Her lab utilizes the maximum containment laboratory (BSL-4) at Texas Biomed.
Dr. Patterson helped develop a marmoset model used for multiple infectious agents:
Ebola virus
Marburg virus
Lassa fever
Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus

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Joel Goldstein

Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law

Highly respected scholar of the Vice Presidency, Presidency, and Constitutional Law, having written widely in all three areas. An expert on the 25th amendment, Goldstein has been sought out frequently following the 2016 US Election.

A renowned Constitutional Law scholar, Professor Goldstein has made a name for himself with his scholarly work and expertise on the history of the modern vice presidency of the United States. Having written three books on the topic, he is frequently sought after by national and international media as they examine the role of the vice president in the current administration.
A Rhodes Scholar who studied at Oxford, Professor Goldstein received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard University. He joined the faculty at Saint Louis University School of Law in 1994.

Pence has taken care to appear extraordinarily loyal to Trump, so much so that Joel K. Goldstein, a historian and an expert on Vice-Presidents who teaches law at St. Louis University, refers to him as the “Sycophant-in-Chief.” ,The modern-day vice president serves primarily as a close presidential adviser and assistant. The vice president’s move from Capitol Hill to the White House has allowed the office to become a significant institution. But this week, Mike Pence reminded Americans of an older role the vice president also sometimes serves: that of legislative officer who can preside over the Senate.,No other powers are specified, but in reality “the office has grown into a central part of the presidency,” says Saint Louis University law professor Joel Goldstein. The vice president serves as an “across-the-board adviser and troubleshooter.”,The amendment’s principal author, Sen. Birch Bayh, D.-Ind., embraced an understanding that presidential inability would encompass both physical and menta

Since 2006, Davis has worked extensively with the military in the homeland security enterprise and force generation. During a twenty-year Army career, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Davis served in a variety of command and staff positions in airborne, ranger, and Special Forces units. While an instructor at the US Army Infantry School, 1987-89, he was the principal author for the revision of Field Manual 7-10, The Rifle Company Manual. His military awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman's Badge, and Master Parachutist Badge. From 1997-2000, Davis served as a training consultant in the US State Department's Train and Equip Program in Bosnia-Herzegovina. From 2000-2005, he worked in public education as a JROTC instructor in San Antonio, Texas. Davis earned two degrees from Texas A&M University: a bachelor's in history (1976) and a PhD in education (2003). At Troy State University, he earned a master's degree in international relations (1989). Author of numerous articles, Dr. Davis most recent book, The Phinehas Priesthood: Violent Vanguard of the Christian Identity Movement, was published by Praeger Publishers in 2010. He and his wife Mary live on the Corner Ranch in South Texas.

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Meg Penrose

Professor of Law

Research mainly focuses on constitutional law issues, including the First Amendment and social media, same-sex marriage/divorce, criminal procedure and, most recently, the Justices themselves.

My research mainly focuses on constitutional law issues, including the First Amendment and social media, same-sex marriage/divorce, criminal procedure and, most recently, the Justices themselves.
I was fortunate to work with two federal judges, the Honorable Jerry Buchmeyer (a legal legend in the Dallas area) and the Honorable Jane J. Boyle. These two individuals taught me not only the importance of law but also the vital nature of justice.

Dr. Thosar holds a Ph.D. in finance from Indiana University, an MBA and B. Com. He taught at the University of Massachusetts and University of Technology in Sydney, Australia before coming to the University of Redlands in 2005. He has pursued an active research in finance and economics over his career. He publishes and presents regularly at national and international conferences and appears on panel discussions on topics of current economic and financial interest.

Tax reform in general ought to be guided by similar principles: simplification of the tax code
aimed at lowering marginal rates while eliminating special interest loopholes, broadening the
tax base without sacrificing progressivity, and revenue neutrality.

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Steven Wuhs

Assistant Provost for Internationalization

International politics, particularly in Europe and Mexico, American politics, political change, comparative parties

Steve Wuhs is assistant provost for internationalization and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Redlands. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and B.A. in sociology and Spanish at Macalester College. He is a former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (at the Technical University of Dresden), the Center for U.S-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.

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Brandon Gibb

Professor of Psychology

Gibb is the director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science at Binghamton University. His research interests include cognitive, genetic and environmental risk factors for the development of depression and anxiety in children . . .

Gibb is the director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science at Binghamton University. His research interests include cognitive, genetic and environmental risk factors for the development of depression and anxiety in children, adolescents and adults. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles.
The focus of Gibb’s research is to integrate cognitive and genetic theories of psychopath-ology, by evaluating whether the ways in which people process information (biases in attention, interpretation and memory) may be impacted by specific genetic influences. Gibb and his team are also examining how specific cognitive, genetic and environmental influences may combine, to increase risk for depression. His research is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health.

,,,Though there remains much work to figure out the degree to which a child’s eye dilation can be reliably graphed to their depression risk, the authors are hopeful about the practical applications their results may someday point to, especially because of the test’s low cost and ease in performing. "We think this line of research could eventually lead to universal screenings in pediatricians' offices to assess future depression risk in kids," said study author Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University and director of the Mood Disorders Institute and Center for Affective Science, in a statement.,Though there remains much work to figure out the degree to which a child’s eye dilation can be reliably graphed to their depression risk, the authors are hopeful about the practical applications their results may someday point to, especially because of the test’s low cost and ease in performing. "We think this line of research could eventually lead to universal screenings in pediatricians'

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Thomas Horan

Dean, School of Business

Dr. Thomas Horan can speak with authority on all aspects of business, specifically in management, technology for business, GIS for business and education in 21st-century skills.

Dr. Thomas A. Horan joined University of Redlands in July 2017 as dean of the School of Business, where he also holds the position of H. Jess and Donna Colton Senecal Endowed Dean’s Chair. Horan provides leadership for the school’s strategic efforts to foster high-quality business education in Redlands, throughout Southern California, and online. Horan also plays a leadership role in linking technology (including Geographic Information Systems (GIS)) and business education, as well as steering professional (non-degree) business education opportunities.
Prior to joining the University of Redlands, Horan served on the faculty at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) for 22 years. In 2011, he was appointed as dean of the School of Information Systems and Technology, and in 2015 he became dean of the Drucker School of Management. He also co-directed the university’s Transdisciplinary Studies program as well as Big Data and Creativity Initiatives from 2014 to 2016. In the area of GIS, he taught one of the first CGU courses in GIS in 1997 and over the subsequent two decades shepherded the growth of its GIS curriculum and Advanced GIS Lab.
Horan’s research and professional work has been at the intersection of management and technology. He has approximately 30 years of experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating technologies and has led several initiatives in health care, supply chain, and transportation. His work has been featured at the U.S. White House and has been sponsored by numerous organizations, including the California HealthCare Foundation, Blue Shield Foundation, U.S. Social Security Administration, National Science Foundation, United Nations Development Corporation, Mayo Clinic, Kay Family Foundation, Inland Empire Health Plan, and Getty Leadership Institute. Horan has also assisted numerous start-ups such as Smart Traveler and Interactive Radio, as well as large companies such Saleforce.com and BNSF Rail.
Horan has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hong Kong University, University of Hawaii, and University of Minnesota and has served in numerous advisory positions in the United States, Middle East, and Asia. Prior to joining academia, Horan served as a senior analyst for the U.S. Congress’s Government Accountability Office, where he led a series of studies that contributed to the development of a $1 billion public-private technology R&D program.
Horan was raised on the coast of Massachusetts, where he returns for respite each summer. He graduated from the University of Vermont, Burlington (B.A., Psychology, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1981 and then moved west to earn his graduate degrees at CGU (Master of Public Policy; Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and Technology). He met his wife while a graduate student, and they were delighted to return to Southern California to raise their two children in Claremont.

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Lina Begdache

Assistant Professor of Health and Wellness Studies

Begdache’s research interests include nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics, neurodegeneration, nutrition and mental distress, and microbiota.

Begdache’s research interests include nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics, neurodegeneration, nutrition and mental distress, and microbiota. She teaches several courses, including Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology, Principles of Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics, and Pathophysiology of Nutrition-Related Diseases.
Begdache was featured by publications such as Bustle and The New York Post for her researching showing a connection between food and mood, and she wrote a piece for The Conversation on the hefty price of study drug misues on college campuses.

Lina Begdache, molecular biologist, registered dietitian-nutritionist and assistant professor for health and wellness studies, was featured in publications such as Newsweek, suggesting that skipping meals is a “mean trick to your body, which is eagerly anticipating breakfast.” ,Lina Begdache, molecular biologist, registered dietitian-nutritionist and assistant professor for health and wellness studies, was featured in publications such as Newsweek, suggesting that skipping meals is a “mean trick to your body, which is eagerly anticipating breakfast.” ,Lina Begdache, molecular biologist, registered dietitian-nutritionist and assistant professor for health and wellness studies, was featured in publications such as Newsweek, suggesting that skipping meals is a “mean trick to your body, which is eagerly anticipating breakfast.”

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David Campbell

Chair and Associate Professor of Public Administra

Campbell’s research interests include strategic alliances and mergers among non-profit organizations; and the role of private foundations and advocacy in the nonprofit sector.

Campbell’s research interests include strategic alliances and mergers among non-profit organizations; and the role of private foundations and advocacy in the nonprofit sector.
Campbell has devoted his career to research and practice in the nonprofit sector, with his research interests addressing a range of critical nonprofit management issues, including accountability and performance measurement; organizational emergence and adaptation (specifically in response to disaster); and mergers and other forms of restructuring. He has received funding from the Learning by Giving Foundation and Campus Compact for the Philanthropy Incubator he founded. The program educates and encourages philanthropy among undergraduate and graduate students, including awarding funds to local nonprofit organizations. He has distributed more than $100,000 to local organizations over the past seven years.

Giving is a personal decision. What motivates people often depends on things like core values and the issues they're passionate about. So, before you search for the right charity, clarify a few things.,Giving is a personal decision. What motivates people often depends on things like core values and the issues they're passionate about. So, before you search for the right charity, clarify a few things.

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Marjorie Speers

Executive Director-WCG Foundation

The Foundation helps improve lives by delivering on the promise of clinical research, in 3 areas: expanded access to experimental drugs for desperately ill patients; underrepresented populations in clinical trials; and education for research professionals.

Marjorie A. Speers, Ph.D., is a global leader in human research protections. Most recently, she was founding president and CEO of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP), retiring in 2013.
Dr. Speers views the opportunity to lead this one-of-a-kind foundation—and continue to contribute to research protections and public well-being worldwide—as the natural progression in an exemplary career of public service. Before establishing AAHRPP in 2001, she served as acting executive director of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she oversaw research protections for all domestic and international research.
Dr. Speers is a graduate of Dickinson College, where she serves on the Board of Trustees and established a scholarship that has benefited numerous international students. She also holds doctoral degrees in psychology and epidemiology from Yale University.

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Gary S. Kaplan

CEO

Gary S. Kaplan, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician who has served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle since 2000.

Practicing internal medicine physician who has served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle since 2000. He is also chair of the National Patient Safety Foundation Lucian Leape Institute and immediate past chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board of Directors. During his tenure as chief executive, Virginia Mason has become a national leader in quality, safety and innovation resulting from its Toyota Production System-inspired lean management methodology, the Virginia Mason Production System. To schedule an interview with Dr. Kaplan, contact Virginia Mason Media Relations.

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Neil B. Friedman

Director, The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy

A catalyst for advancing breast cancer treatment, Dr. Friedman has partnered with many prestigious national and local organizations to improve the treatment options for women with breast cancer. Dr. Friedman led the charge to bring IORT to Mercy.

Neil B. Friedman, M.D., FACS, is Director of The Hoffberger Breast Center at Mercy as well as Medical Director of The Weinberg Center for Women's Health and Medicine at Mercy. A catalyst for advancing breast cancer treatment, Dr. Friedman has partnered with many prestigious national and local organizations to improve the treatment options for women with breast cancer. Likewise, on a very personal level, he partners with each of his patients and their families to help them face the challenges and triumphs of living with a breast cancer diagnosis. Dr. Friedman led the charge to bring IORT, Intraoperative Radiotherapy, to Mercy making it the first hospital in Maryland to offer this leading edge technology.
Dr. Friedmane began his medical career as Chief Resident at the nationally renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is a Board Certified breast cancer doctor who is dedicated to the search for a cure for cancer.. His team continues to lead breast cancer initiatives and introduce best-in-practice breast care treatment options, including Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT), an innovative, single dose radiation treatment, to patients. Dr. Friedman was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Mildred Mindell Cancer Foundation for his efforts in the fight against breast cancer. He has served as a national spokesperson for breast cancer prevention for major organizations such as Bath & Bodyworks.
Dr. Friedman has been the Chairman of the American Cancer Society’s Research Administrative Committee, a member of its Executive and Professional Education Committees, and served on its Board of Directors. He has also been involved with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Dr. Friedman leads a team of clinicians devoted to breast cancer education, advocating the latest advancements in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer at a number of conferences, continuing education forums and patient seminars.
Dr. Neil Friedman remains committed in his career to find optimal treatments for breast cancer. Some of his accomplishments include:
• Named a “Top Doc” by Baltimore magazine in the Breast Surgery category
• Named Humanitarian of the Year by the Mildred Mindell Cancer Foundation
• The Breast Center at Mercy Medical Center first in Maryland to offer IORT Treatment
• Research on cancer has been published in American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Immunotherapy

• “It used to be that several decades ago, if you had a distant recurrence (when cancer grows outside the breast to other parts of the body), patients died within a few years. Now it's not rare to see patients out 10 years, 12 years, 15 years because we're

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Armando Sardi

Medical Director, The Institute for Cancer Care at

An internationally recognized expert and pioneer in the field of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, Dr. Sardi is a surgical oncologist with expertise in treating late stage, complex cancers of the abdominal region. He is also involved in research.

Armando Sardi, M.D., is a respected and renowned Surgical Oncologist who has been honored as a Top Doc in Baltimore magazine multiple times. He serves as Medical Director of The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy and as Chief of Division of Surgical Oncology at Mercy Medical Center in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sardi is one of Maryland’s leading surgical oncologists who use Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat late stage, complex cancers of the abdominal region. Dr. Sardi has been performing HIPEC procedures since 1994 and is considered to be among the best doctors using the technique. This advanced heated chemotherapy procedure is often a life saving treatment option for patients who have exhausted more traditional treatment plans for stomach cancer. Patients have traveled to Mercy Medical Center from points up and down the East Coast to destinations across the U.S., to seek out Dr. Sardi for his cancer expertise in the HIPEC treatment.
Dr. Armando Sardi is a man whose professional focus is devoted to medical excellence, research and finding a cure for cancer. For his patients, Dr. Sardi’s personal concern and approach to their care is what helps them gain a positive outlook and confidence to face the challenges ahead. His cheerful smile and kind hearted laugh immediately put patients at ease. And yet, it his unyielding determination to give every patient the best possible chance to overcome their illness that ranks him among the best of the best. When other doctors have told patients there is no hope, Dr. Sardi tries even harder to beat the odds. Thanks to Dr. Sardi, the HIPEC procedure and other leading edge treatment options, he has given patients so much more than hope. Patient after patient, year after year, have shared their stories at Mercy’s National Cancer Day Survivor Celebration and Mercy's annual Heat It to Beat It fundraising event. There are 3, 5, 10 year cancer survivors – each telling a heartwarming story of hope and survivorship. Dr. Sardi co-Chairs Mercy’s Cancer Committee and actively participates in The Tumor Board. These efforts allow cancer experts, specialists and key members of the healthcare team to discuss and collaborate on complex cancer cases to learn new and different ways to optimize resources, medical knowledge and treat patients so that long-term results will be improved.
Dr. Sardi also plays a key role in the Mercy National Cancer Survivor Day festivities. This joyous and spirited celebration is more than a reunion of cancer survivors, it is a day when Dr. Sardi and the Mercy family rejoice with their patients and loved ones. Together they have been through a long and challenging cancer journey and together they delight in all the possibilities ahead.
Dr. Armando Sardi, whose celebrated reputation has garnered local and international acclaim, has earned an international reputation for the advances he has made in the surgical oncology field and for his humanitarian efforts to care for the poor and underserved in third world countries.
Dr. Sardi has been distinguished in Colombia, South America as one of the 100 Most Influential Expatriates – an honor received, in part, for the medical care he provides through the non-profit organization, Partners for Cancer Care and Prevention. This organization was the recipient of the Conquer Cancer Foundation's Inaugural International Innovation Grant.
Dr. Armando Sardi has been recognized for his research, leadership and compassionate bedside manner. Some of his awards include:
“Hispanic Hero Award for Excellence as a Medical/Social Entrepreneur” Presented by USHYEE
“Gold Star Teamwork Award” Presented by The Sisters of Mercy in recognition of Gold Star performance
Honored by Fusionarte as one of “100 Colombianos” who represent the talent, creativity and perseverance of Colombia. Bogota, Colombia December 2012
Named by Baltimore Magazine a "Top Doctor" in the Surgical Oncology specialty
Named by Castle Connelly Medical Ltd. a "Top Doctor" in Surgery
Dr. Sardi founded the annual HEAT IT TO BEAT IT benefit walk in Baltimore to raise awareness about HIPEC and cancer treatment.

• "The treatment is called HIPEC. It consists of is going in and removing all the tumor first. That's the most important thing to do. It takes between 8 and 12 hours. Then you give 90 minutes of heated chemotherapy," Dr. Sardi said.

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Jean Moorjani

Pediatrician

Jean S. Moorjani, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. She is a member of the medical education faculty that works with the pediatric residency training program.

Jean S. Moorjani, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. She is a member of the medical education faculty that works with the pediatric residency training program. Her areas of focus include breastfeeding, asthma and children with special healthcare needs. Dr. Moorjani earned her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Moorjani is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Within the AAP, she is a fellow of the Section on Breastfeeding, the Section on Hospital Medicine and a fellow of the Council on Communications and Media.

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Christine Greves

OB-GYN

Christine Greves, MD, is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellow of the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG).

Christine Greves, MD, is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellow of the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). She received her medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine where she also completed her residency. At Orlando Health's Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Greves provides comprehensive obstetrical and gynecological care to patients and serves as an obstetrical and gynecological surgeon at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies. Dr. Greves is an advocate of minimally invasive surgery to reduce perioperative pain and speed up recovery time. One of her many passions encompasses women’s health, whether it is preventative care, health and fitness, pain, bleeding irregularities, pregnancy or any other concerns that affect a woman’s health.

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Laxmi Mehta

Director, Preventative Cardiology and Women's Hear

She specializes in women’s cardiovascular health, prevention and cardiac imaging. Dr. Mehta is an avid promoter and educator on women’s cardiovascular health and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Laxmi Mehta, M.D., FACC, FAHA is the Director of the Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Mehta is also the Associate Program Director for Education for Ohio State’s Center for Women’s Health.
She is the President of the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and has previously served two terms as Secretary/Treasurer for the Ohio-ACC Chapter. Additionally, she is the Immediate Past President of the metro Columbus Board of Directors for the American Heart Association and now currently serves on the Great Rivers Affiliate Board for the American Heart Association. She sits on several national committees for both the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. Dr. Mehta was chosen by Business First Magazine as one of Columbus' Top 40 under 40 in 2010 and honored as one of 12 women for the 2012 Women for Economic Leadership (WELD) Women You Should Know Calendar Honoree.
She specializes in women’s cardiovascular health, prevention and cardiac imaging. Dr. Mehta is an avid promoter and educator on women’s cardiovascular health and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. She received her M.D. degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown, Ohio in 1998. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training and Clinical Cardiology fellowship training at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan in 2001 and 2005.

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Michael Cackovic

Maternal & fetal medicine physician

Obstetrics, specializing in maternal fetal medicine. This includes treatment of preeclampsia and other pregnancy-related problems. I also treat women in preterm labor and those with a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

I practice obstetrics, specializing in maternal fetal medicine. This includes treatment of preeclampsia and other problems that can occur during pregnancy. I also treat women experiencing preterm labor and those who have a history of adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Patient-centered care is important to me. In obstetrics, there can be gray areas in approaches to treatment. It is important that healthcare decisions be made as a team with the patient and family as key and essential parts of this team.
Something many people don't know about me is that, during my career as a Navy physician, I was deployed and provided care in Haiti, Afghanistan and Central America.

Professor Janice Kiecolt-Glaser holds the S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine in The Ohio State University College of Medicine; she also holds the title of Distinguished University Professor. She is a member of the OSU Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research as well as Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. Working in the area of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), she has authored more than 200 articles, chapters, and books, most in collaboration with Dr. Ronald Glaser. Their studies have demonstrated important health consequences of stress, including slower wound healing and impaired vaccine responses; they have also shown that chronic stress substantially accelerates age-related changes in inflammation, linked to some cancers, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, and frailty and function decline. In addition, their programmatic work has focused on how personal relationships influence immune and endocrine function, and health.

John-Paul Rue, M.D., is a fellowship-trained Board Certified orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, specializing in arthroscopic repair of sports-related injuries, including complex knee and shoulder reconstructions with Orthopedics and Joint Replacement at Mercy. Dr. John-Paul Rue specializes in the prevention and treatment of injuries related to sports and exercise. He treats patients of all ages, serving athletes ranging from the casual jogger or weekend warrior to competitive and collegiate athletes and beyond. His primary focus is treating injuries of the knee, shoulder and elbow, from ACL tears, meniscus and cartilage injuries to shoulder instability and rotator cuff injuries. He also sees patients with injuries such as overuse tendonitis, ankle sprains and fractures.As an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist, Dr. Rue is able to diagnose and treat a wide variety of acute and overuse injuries utilizing both surgical and non-operative techniques. He works closely with colleagues and rehabilitation specialists to guide patients through the recovery process, recommend related strength and conditioning exercises and offer return-to-play insight and guidelines. Dr. Rue’s patient-centered approach to treatment and rehabilitation allows him to develop strong doctor-patient relationships and personalized treatment plans for each patient. He is committed to helping his patients perform at their very best when participating in their chosen sports and physical activities. Dr. Rue is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served as the head team physician for the Naval Academy before coming to Mercy. He deployed to Iraq with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Chief Orthopedic Surgeon, Charlie Surgical Company Forward Resuscitative Unit, Camp Fallujah, Iraq and continues his commitment to service as a Naval Reservist. As a respected sports medicine physician, Dr. Rue has contributed numerous print and online publications highlighting his research and experience in the field of orthopedic sports medicine, and has given invited lectures on a variety of orthopedic conditions at national and international scientific meetings. His research has garnered 2 major awards from the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. He is a member of multiple notable medical associations and serves as an expert scientific reviewer for several medical journals, including the American Journal of Sports Medicine, and The Journal of Knee Surgery.

"Runner’s knee is really irritation underneath in the knee cap,” he said. “The kneecap is the patella. That area can get inflamed. If you have extra wear and tear, we call that runner’s knee, but it's really a compilation of a lot of things."

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Leonard L. Berry

Professor of Marketing, Regents Professor

He conducted an in-depth research study of healthcare service. Dr. Berry is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement studying service improvement in cancer care for patients and their families.

Professor Berry has written ten books in all, including Discovering the Soul of Service; On Great Service; Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality; and Delivering Quality Service. He is the author of numerous academic articles and an invited lecturer throughout the world.
Professor Berry’s teaching and research have been widely recognized with many honors for his contributions, including Fellow of the American Marketing Association (AMA), the Paul D. Converse Award, the AMA/McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the Career Contributions to Services Marketing Award from the AMA, the Outstanding Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science, and Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. Texas A&M awarded him the Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching (1990) and the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research (1996 and 2008), the highest honors bestowed upon its faculty members. In 2014, he was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Alumni Award from the Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and in 2015 the Mays Business School at Texas A&M awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research and Scholarship.
A former national president of the American Marketing Association, Dr. Berry founded the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M in 1982 and served as its director through 2000.

Clifford L. Jeng, M.D., is Medical Director of The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center and an award-winning foot and ankle surgeon. Patients from Baltimore and across the Mid-Atlantic region come to Dr. Jeng for his expertise in foot and ankle injuries and conditions.Dr. Clifford Jeng leads a talented team of surgeons who offer innovative treatments for complex foot and ankle issues as well as comprehensive treatment for common foot and ankle conditions. As a long-standing member of the physician team, Dr. Jeng has invested over a decade in The Institute and continues to carry on the legacy of excellence as its Medical Director. Built on a foundation of continued education and innovation to benefit patient care, The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy remains a leading Center of Excellence in complete foot and ankle care including treatment for ankle injury and Achilles tendon problems, foot injury and conditions, big toe and smaller toe problems, heel injury and diabetic foot conditions.Dr. Jeng and his team offer comprehensive initial visits as well as second opinions. Physicians and patients alike value Dr. Jeng's expert opinion and hopeful patients have been known to travel long distances to be evaluated and cared for by Dr. Jeng.
Various media outlets and television stations also rely on Dr. Jeng to provide thorough analysis and explanation of foot and ankle conditions as well as information on the latest technologies and techniques offering new hope to patients with complicated foot and ankle injuries or problems.
Dr. Jeng has been recognized as a Top Doc by Baltimore magazine multiple times. Board Certified, Dr. Jeng has specialized training in advanced surgical techniques, including minimally invasive surgery and arthroscopy. Dr. Clifford Jeng established the prestigious Foot and Ankle Fellowship program at Mercy and has trained peers and elite orthopedic surgeons.
Following the spirit and mission of the Sisters of Mercy, Dr. Clifford Jeng is dedicated to providing foot and ankle care to the less fortunate in the Baltimore community. Dr. Jeng, along with fellow surgeons Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Rebecca Cerrato, has volunteered foot care services during an annual event for homeless men who find refuge at Baltimore’s Helping Up Mission. Additionally Dr. Jeng has regularly participated in Baltimore's Run to Remember, running alongside colleagues, patients and Baltimore residents to honor the heroes of 9-11 and raise money for The Baltimore City Police Foundation and The Baltimore City Fire Foundation.

“The advent of synthetic cartilage offers surgeons a new option to treat patients dealing with the pain caused by degenerative arthritis of the big toe joint. The implant replaces part of the damaged cartilage surface in the joint..."

Teresa P. Diaz-Montes, M.D., MPH, FACOG, serves as the Associate Director of The Lya Segall Ovarian Cancer Institute. She also is a noted expert and gynecologic oncologist with The Gynecologic Oncology Center at Mercy, a leading Center in Baltimore for the treatment of cancers of the female reproductive tract. Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes provides diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancers including ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer and vulvar cancer. Board Certified in Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes provides treatment for a diverse range of gynecologic cancers. Her primary clinical interests include ovarian cancer treatments, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, including robotic surgery, and patient safety and quality. Additional areas of interest include cervical cancer, fallopian tube cancer, fertility-sparing surgery and uterine, vaginal and vulvar cancers. Bringing a friendly approach to the treatment of her patients, Dr. Diaz-Montes takes the necessary time to listen to the needs of her patients and address their concerns. As a recipient of the Patient's Choice award, her approachable, caring bedside manner has been formally recognized by her patients. Dr. Teresa Diaz-Montes is known for her knowledge and dedication to finding advanced treatments for gynecologic cancers. Her expert opinion is often sought by media outlets and she has been featured in notable publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She was also featured by The Sun Magazine as "One of 50 Women to Watch" for her dedication to innovative treatments for ovarian cancer. Dr. Diaz-Montes has extensive experience in research and resident teaching activities. She has conducted various clinical trials to advance the care of gynecologic cancers, particularly ovarian cancer. She and colleagues in The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy are conducting the first clinical study in the United States regarding treatment of ovarian cancer with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, also known as HIPEC. Dr. Diaz-Montes, an author and international lecturer, has numerous clinical publications related to women’s cancer treatment to her credit.
Awards and Honors
Top Doctor in Gynecologic Oncology, Baltimore magazine
Top Doctor in Gynecologic Oncology, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

"Not all ovarian cysts cause symptoms. It is very normal for woman to have cysts that develop and resolve without any intervention. Symptoms could be related to location and size of the cyst."

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Carolyn Long Engelhard

Associate Professor

Private and public health coverage; expenditures in the organization and financing of medical services; quality issues in health care; patient safety and medical errors; and changes in health workforce.

Carolyn Long Engelhard is director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where she specializes in analyzing and monitoring changes in health policy at the state and federal level.
Engelhard co-authored a book on myths about the U.S. healthcare system and completed a national project together with the nonpartisan Urban Institute that examined the use of public policies to reduce obesity.
Regularly quoted in national media outlets, Engelhard has served as a contributing health policy expert for thehill.com.
Listen to Engelhard discuss healthcare reform:
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2017/04/09/wake-up-call-the-affordable-care-act-repeal-replace-or-remain/

Michael D. Williams is a surgeon at the University of Virginia Health System and director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, which provides comprehensive, apolitical analysis of current and proposed health policies.
Williams has served as chief medical officer for the Washington, D.C. Fire and EMS Department and is now director of UVA’s Summer Medical Leadership Program, which helps prepare underrepresented minority students for medical school and to become leaders in the medical field.
Williams’s analysis is frequently featured in national and regional media outlets.
See Williams discuss the Summer Medical Leadership Program:
http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/UVA-working-to-increase-diversity-in-medicine-through-a-special-summer-program-434546913.html